CHAPTER 195

An Act to amend and reenact § 18-217 of the Code of Virginia, relating
to the protection of homing pigeons. rH 161]

Approved March 7, 1960

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 18-217 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted
as follows:

§ 18-217. It shall be unlawful for any person at any time or in any
manner to hunt, pursue, take, capture, wound, maim, disfigure, or kill any
homing pigeon of another person, or to make use of any pit or pitfall,
scaffold, cage, snare, trap, net, baited hook or similar device or drug,
poison chemical or explosive, for the purpose of injuring, capturing or
killing any such homing pigeon, provided that any officer, employee or
agent of a city or county acting pursuant to authority of an ordinance
thereof may take, capture and kill pigeons in, on and about any building or
structure devoted to business, commercial or industrial purposes when any
pigeons are using such premises for roosting, resting or congregating
thereon; all pigeons taken upon such premises shall be conclusively
deemed not to be homing pigeons or the property of any person.

Any person violating any of the foregoing provisions shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof, shall be punished
accordingly.